The video was part of the run up to the 2011 World Tapping Summit.

 

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The 2012 World Tapping Summit starts on 7th May topics include:

Emotional Gridlock – How to get out your own way to get what you want.

Pain Relief with EFT (also known as tapping)

You Deserve More – Financial Success with EFT

I was a lucky one that year (or more likely it was meant) I would have completely missed the summit if I wasn’t for interviewing Jessica Ortner ( the summit’s host) for a women’s stress site and the traffic to the summit’s servers being so heavy that they had to repeat one of the days to cope with the demand.

I’d heard of EFT. I’d it was valuable and great. However, I found it easy to dismiss without trying it for myself.

So I joined the summit for the repeated name on finances. (It’s all recorded so it can be listened to anytime on the day it’s available.)

EFT Master Carol Look gave an introduction to EFT and then I listened to her on using it change you finances. Carol Look has authored a popular course on the subject.

The heart of the EFT technique is to access and making increasingly become conscious of emotions and then tap on the energy meridians in the body to clear the emotions. (The energy meridians are the same things that targeted by acupuncturists with remarkable results. Fortunately no needles are required you do the technique with your fingers, mainly tapping your face.)

Carol got us to find a credit card bill or a currency note (she probably said Dollar Bill, but I translated). Something that was associated with money and bugged us in one way or another (often subtly).

I chose some financial statements I received. I felt guilt about having money and so, subconsciously, tried to get rid of it. I tapped away on the points as I repeated what Carol said to help me get in touch with my feelings.

Then, as I tapped on my head, I felt the shift. Suddenly my perception of money changed. The guilt lessened and although I knew I still had some way to go I knew I found another thing that REAL worked.

The Tapping World Summit 2012 is available free online from Monday May, 7^th to Thursday May, 17^th. Day 3 has particular relevance finances and I strongly recommend you attend the lot as issues are always interconnected. Click here to register.

This always leads to frustration. In my case two businesses failed. It was very painful.

There were a number of times when I just gave up; tried to downscale my expectations and get a job (or a career and a job, as an attempt to increase income).

Then, one day, I stumbled across Erika Awakening, as she is known. I was struck at first that she could charge so much for her coaching. I knew the industry standard for EFT sessions and she was well above that.

I dipped my toe in the water by buying one of the few products she had available then. I was really impressed, when I followed her instructions. I soon had a job along the lines I had been tapping for. I just needed raise my expectations.

I joined her membership program and found her tapping videos to very powerful. I’m still not sure how she does it but the process really gets under your skin. I could feel my beliefs change as I tapped.

It’s hard to get going sometimes, but when in motion things flow much more easily. It’s a principle that applies to everyone ill or not.

So if he has clients that are stuck making sales calls to 7 digit phone numbers. He tells to just dial 3 numbers each day but they only need to the dial the first 6 digits.

They can pat themselves on the back because their job has been done. Of course, if they continue to dial, talk to someone at the other end and talk about their products that’s great and not necessary to pass the task….

That often unsticks them.

This is also an application of the great Kaizen principle (which actually comes from the USA but is strongly associated with the Japanese). This suggests making baby steps – tiny changes will eventually produce great results.

Small changes have the great advantage of not setting off the amygdala (the part of the brain that causes panic) and therefore often makes it easier to stick to the change.

It can help with stress, pain – both emotional and physical. It is powerful against physical disease as well. It can transform your finances (yes, really. See the video).

I found out about this life changing therapy two years ago, when I interviewed a young lady with a big vision for a website I was building on women’s stress.

Her name was Jessica Ortner and you can see her in this video.

Jessica is on a mission to tell the world of the wonder she has found called EFT.

I’m very grateful to Jessica. She invited me to the World Tapping Summit a FREE live event you can “attend” from your computer that her and her brothers put on annually. It attracts some of the best in the “Tapping” world to show you how to use the technique to the max.

The 2012 event is coming up and it’s my pleasure to invite you, dear reader, to attend from the comfort of your home computer. You can show up anytime of the day and listen & watch the summit. Replays are available throughout the day.

As a prelude to the summit you can click through to a pre-launch education video here. In it Jessica interviews her brother Nick (a remarkable tapper), where he talks about the science behind tapping and how it can change lives and finances.

And if you are sceptical that EFT can make a real difference then you can imagine how Jessica felt when her joker of a brother (Nick) suggested she tap her head…..

Here’s the video.

According the Lester Leverson who gave the world both the Sedona Method and the Release Technique, the last of the negative emotions is pride and the beginning of the positive emotions is courageousness.

Pride is described as a stuck state where you’ve done something excellent before but fear you won’t be able to repeat the feat. Thus you tend to repeat old achievement(s) over and over in your mind rather than move onto new and greater things. Pride is a stuck state.

In courageous we have the ability to move without hesitation and self-correct.

On the business front there many small business owners who are stuck in financial or other problems and unable to move forward because of pride. They can’t admit that they have a problem. They can’t reach out to others. They are living on the memory of the previous success of the business.

Those who deny their debt are in pride (or a lower emotional state). Their credibility appears to them in being debt-free so they deny their debt. The revelation that could transform their lives is that their value comes from being human rather than being debt-free. Therefore they can face their debt and seek to resolve it.

How do you move from pride to courageous? The release technique and the Sedona Method call it releasing or letting go. Essentially it’s a process of relaxing and letting go of emotions and the desire to control. The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can do something similar but through a different method. Energetic NLP also has an equivalent.

Twelve years after I recovered in the middle of a nervous breakdown with just a bottle of B Vitamins. I had managed with just a dietary programme, a supplement programme, and lithium (arguably a nutrient) for all those years. Rarely seeing a doctor about my diagnosed bipolar disorder, if I was every prescribed Valium I didn’t use it for more than few days.

Then I picked up a vicious virus that totally destroyed my nutritional programme.

I had to choose whether to take the pride route or the courageousness route. If had stayed in pride then I’d have avoided the doctors and therefore the stronger drugs.

Instead I took a different path…. I faced that I was real trouble, probably over did it. I even believed that when I called the taxi to take me to the Accident & Emergency room (known as Emergency Room in the United States) that I wouldn’t just see a doctor; they wouldn’t just stop there but admit me to hospital and from there I’d lose my job. Just like I did 12 years go. That was my worry.

In courageousness….I called the taxi anyway, and left to meet my “fate”.

The UK’s Accident and Emergency departments are perhaps better described “broken leg departments” next to no-one queue jumps and there’s a long queue. I sat there and didn’t agitate – rare for someone with hypomania.

Eventually, I did get to meet a doctor and only then did it slowly dawn on me what my condition was. I was surprisingly well and though it took me a few days to recover my prompt action had saved me a lot of grief. Yes, I took a few doses of the strong drugs (neuroleptics) but so what! Courageousness pays.

That certainly used to be my attitude when I was a Nutrition Consultant.

But what if the pharmaceutical companies dominate medicine not so much because of all their money but rather the attitude of complementary therapists?

If complementary therapies such as nutrition, or acupuncture, homeopathy or the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) are to get more widely won’t they need a lot more money behind them?

And in order to have more money behind complementary therapies wouldn’t it help if their therapists have more money behind them. To do that they must lose their terrible issues round having money.

I know of one Nutritional Therapist who lacked so much confidence and disliked money so much that she charged her clients absolutely nothing for her services. Nutritional Therapy saved me from years in and out of mental hospital. There are millions of people who deserve to know about it. However, this therapist will have no money to advertise it and treats the therapy as worthless. She is also likely to resent her own clients sooner or later and start putting out a negative energy.

It’s time to get “angry” not at those judged to “over-charge” for their services but at those who undercharge? It is them that don’t truly believe in their therapies.

If we just accept our limiting beliefs around money then the pharmaceutical companies will continue to dominate medicine to the detriment of us all.

What do you think? I know money can be a sore point for us all so I’m looking for some lively debate.
Imogen

P.S. I’d like to thank my coach Erika Awakening for the insights she has given me in this area. Her 30 day to $50,000 Abundance challenge can be found here. And, yes, one of the testimonials up there is from me.

On mention of this computer system Sally and John loudly complained. The makers of the computer system had updated it a few days ago with next to no notice and it had disabled their computers for half a day.

I found their emotional outburst quite uncomfortable, and I wanted to intervene with “Never mind we are getting rid it.” In other words, I’m solving your problem now shut up. Fortunately I couldn’t get a word in edgeways. So I was saved from myself.

It is my belief that in fact next to no-one wants their problem solved when they feeling strong emotions. They want their emotions to be heard. One phrase I remember being said by psychiatric patients (including myself) was “You are NOT listening to me.” When we have strong emotions we need to have them acknowledged before being able to move on properly.

John and Sally wanted to be heard. They wanted their extreme frustration to be heard. After they had been heard they would look at the future. And although they weren’t given much empathy, in my opinion, they were ready to move on, after their outburst, to the next steps in replacing the system.

However, I noticed when we had someone round suggesting an alternative to the system John couldn’t help telling the story again. He hadn’t had enough empathy. He hadn’t moved on. What people generally need is for their feelings and needs to be reflected back to them. “I hear you are feeling frustrated because you need the computers to be reliable?” They’ll say “yes” or “no” to that and if it’s a “no” they may well correct and clarify. Then they may more onto another emotion like anger. Keep dialoguing. Keep reflecting back.

We all have the same human needs and by doing this you are connecting with them and that sense that we are not alone and we all have things in common. That’s healing.

But when faced with powerful emotions we tend to want to hide, especially if it involves people we are emotionally attached to. Marshall Rosenberg (author of “Nonviolent Communication – A Language of Compassion”) tells the story of a mother not hearing the pain of her daughter. As the daughter tried to explain, the mother kept giving her tips, insight, a bit of advice. She was running and the daughter remained in pain until Marshall suggested a better way.

I believe this insight can change the world and our relationships for the better. Marshall has also used it to help people with depression and other mental health diagnoses with remarkable results.

For one of my clients when I explained Nonviolent Communication to her she said it had “changed her life”. She just thought her job was to solve problems. She had alienated a fair few work colleagues in her search for being right and she simply hadn’t heard what they were saying….

Who aren’t you listening to?

(Nonviolent Communication is a trade mark of the Center for Nonviolent Communication)